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Helen Monroe writes warm, honest journals for the seasons nobody prepares you for: the empty nest, the change of life, and the years of caring for someone who is slipping away. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and her dog. She is not a doctor or a therapist.

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Five Minutes a Day: The Habit That Sticks When Everything Else Slips

A new habit is usually planned for a best week. An hour of walking, a chapter a day, a tidy routine in a clean notebook. It holds for a few days. Then a bad week arrives. Someone gets sick, an appointment is moved, the weather turns, and the whole thing folds. The notebook goes into a drawer, and the conclusion is that discipline was the problem…

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